Quotes About Psychology

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it. The Chamber of Unreasonable Guilt is part of my mental architecture, and I doubt that I will ever be able to renovate that particular room in this strange castle that is me.

When you're trying to figure out who…you've got to keep in mind the roots of violence.

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

Denial endures because it soothes.

David wondered what kind of dark-minded people wanted items from the abattoir of a rapist-murderer and how Stuart Ulrich knew where to advertise to attract their attention.

emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically

In the past ten years there had been truly amazing advances in those areas of research – psychopharmacology, biochemistry, psychosurgery, clinical psychology – that directly and indirectly contributed to the less reputable but nonetheless hotly pursued science of mind control.

The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

Or his conscience had been eaten away by the cancer of narcissism.

The Demolished Man.

Some say that as many as 10 percent of human beings are sociopaths.

However, madness is a different thing from sociopathy, and the potential lies in every heart.

In one of his psychology classes, he'd been taught that, as a person lay dying

You're a scary woman, the way you know a man's mind.

Your sub-personalities can tell you what work is left unfinished, what you have to do to resolve recurring patterns. They will tell you what you need to do to learn a specific lesson. If you're willing to listen you will find your sub-personalities are funny, resourceful, honest, and forgiving - the wisest people in the universe when it comes to yourself. This is because they're giving you answers that come from within you.

If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

it is 1958 and men don't really have words for feelings

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

After all your years climbing around in people's heads like a cranial janitor, do you think people know why they do things? People rationalize, they turn their delusions into something romantic that they can disguise as ethics or principles or ideals. People are selfish, Doctor- odiously, monstrously, but in so small and paltry a monstrousness that we barely notice it.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

Chuck said, Fuck if I know. Cawley stepped up beside them. Quite similar to our clinical conclusion.

Por supuesto. —Echó un trago—. El mundo es violento, Patrick. La gente disfruta matando. Porque… —Les da poder —dijo Oscar. —Exactamente —reconoció Devin—. Tiene que haber algo en ello que te hace sentir la hostia de bien. Todo ese poder… —Se encogió de hombros—. Pero ¿para qué te explicamos esto si tú ya lo sabes?

thousands of years of study and experience have made it easier to heal the body, but no one has gotten much past square one on the human mind.

A lack of empathy is a defining characteristic of the sociopath.